phlipski

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by phlipski 9y ago
I spent over a decade doing circuit design and I can corroborate your points. Chip design is maddening! One of the most interesting differences between software and hardware engineering is how many blogs and writing on the web you can fin
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"They're not like Google where, on a whim, they might make an IoT blender for reasons that nobody can explain." Ha - classic!
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How'd you miss on Domino's Pizza? Could have picked it up for about $5/share back in November of 2008. Closed at $178 today. You'd be up about 3460% in 9 years. Google (+574%), Amazon (+2000%), or Chipotle (+350%) ca
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by phlipski 9y ago
I'm reminded a bit of the engineering challenges of the original "Star Wars" program during the Reagan administration. I recall an engineer being quoted as saying, "They're trying to solve 10 manhattan projects at
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by phlipski 9y ago
I had an old running coach say something along the lines of, "The hardest part of running a marathon is getting to the STARTING line injury free." I certainly found that to be true - both personally and watching peers train...
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things Very thought provoking look at recycling and design for eventual recycling.
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AMD has lost money for the past 5 years. They still lost money last quarter - they just haven't lost as much money as previous quarters/years. Now your sentiment with regards to the brutality and short term thinking of the stock
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by phlipski 9y ago
I will second you on Skype. I have to use it at work. It's now the defacto corporate conference call software at my office and my voice is consistently dropped during conference calls. I'm forced to always disconnect and then r
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by phlipski 9y ago
Corporations, startups, small/medium sized businesses - and yes even average people want as few people doing as much work as possible. Would you want 3 plumbers to show up to your house to fix a leaking toilet? I do understand the hi
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Sounds like the tag-line to one of those fake movie trailers on SNL. I like it!
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I thought this was an April Fools joke, but it's a month early... The author seems to only focus on smoking's alleged role in heart attack's. I thought the science is pretty well established that smoking increases cancers ra
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I'm torn on this. Best-designed things ever? I've got a 20 year old pair of SR-60's that I use daily. I'm on my 3rd or 4th set of foam ear cups, and the left channel solder joint failed about 5 years ago (which was ea
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by phlipski 10y ago
In hindsite - LTCM should have been the canary in the coal mine. They got bailed out to the tune of about 4 billion. Sounds like chump change after 2009.... And the banks are STILL too big to fail. If they truly are too big to fail then